{"product_id":"2940013137820","title":"BUT FOR FREEDOM A Rebellious Echo of the White Cockade","description":"Following Across the Sea Beyond Skye, the saga of the MacKenzie family continues.\u003cbr\u003e With the father, Donald, emancipated from indenture and offered employment by the benefactor, the social and economic fortunes of the family advanced. Yet, despite their prospering, they were mindful of their displacement by the ethnic cleansing of the Scottish Highlands, and London’s propensity toward despotic cruelty. They aired little surprise on hearing the contemptuous responses of the throne and Parliament to colonial complaints and predicted arrogance encroaching on the rights and freedom of others would finally arouse the oppressed to be free of the domination and oppressive taxation.\u003cbr\u003eBoth sons graduated from William and Mary, the elder, Robbie, to pursue law.  He delayed his advancement professionally to be commissioned and serve in the Virginia Militia during the French and Indian War.  Kenneth, the younger, attended the first medical school in the colonies at the University of Pennsylvania.  On graduating with MD, encouraged by Benjamin Rush, he returned to Scotland to study surgery under the best at Edinburgh University.  Between semesters, he traveled north to his birthplace to find the glens quite deserted.\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the poorest country in Europe, the storyline elaborated the enormous influence diminutive literate Scotland had with the influx of academicians from its shores expounding the ideas of the Enlightenment providing fuel in the movement toward independence. One such educator was the young William Small, Professor of Moral Philosophy at William and Mary, who exposed his students to the writings of the brightest philosophers in Edinburgh.  One young mind that became captivated with the egalitarian concept of natural rights was that of Thomas Jefferson.","brand":"Lillibett Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068712632560,"sku":"2940013137820","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013137820_p0.jpg?v=1763577280","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013137820","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}